Joan Miró

Also known as Joan Miró i Ferrà, Joan Miró Ferra, Joan Miro, Joán Miró, Miluo, Joan Miró Ferrà, Joan Miro i Ferra, Joan Miro Ferra

Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist (1893–1983)

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Joan Miró was a Spanish artist (1893–1983) who worked in painting, sculpture, and ceramics and became known for developing a distinctive abstract style. His work matters because it significantly influenced modern art movements and demonstrated how artists could create meaningful visual expression through non-representational forms.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1893
Died: 1983
Works: 278

Top works

Miró engraver
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Drawings by Joan Miro
Bagatelles végétales

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Type: Person
Active from: 1893-04-20
Active to: 1983-12-25

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 7
Total plays: 10

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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Quotes

“Let's transplant the primitive soul to the ultramodern New York, inject his soul with the noise of the subway, of the 'el', and may his brain become a long street of buildings 224 stories high. [Barcelona - Dada, 1917]”
“Down with the Mediterranean!”
“..wherever you are, you find the sun, a blade of grass, the spirals of the dragonfly. Courage consists of staying at home, close to nature, which could not care less about our disasters. Each grain of dust contains the soul of something marvellous. [Miró admonished art-critic w:Georges Duthuit ]”
“..something as sensational as [a] heavy weight prize fight.. ..a rain of swings, uppercuts, and straight right and lefts to the stomach and everywhere throughout the entire event – a round lasting about twenty minutes. [remark on a ballet Miro planned to, c. 1930]”
“We see ourselves confronted with pure abstraction. Small problems and highly obscure subjects are, if you will, always grand in intention, and the layman would casually and quite undisparagingly trample on them if they were to serve as carpet motifs.”
“I have thought a lot about the question of titles. I must confess that I find any for works that take off from an arbitrary starting point and end with something real.. ..[Miro allowed Pierre Matisse to make titles, based on the] real things.. ..[if they do] not evoke some tendency or other, something I want to avoid completely [very probably Miro meant here: the Surrealists ]. [advising Pierre Matisse; who showed then several modern European painters in New York].”

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Wikidata facts

Image: Joan Miro (cropped).jpg
Number of children: 1

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date of birth: 1893-01-01
Commons category: Joan Miró
date of death: 1983-12-25
Commons Creator page: Joan Miró
Commons gallery: Joan Miró
name in native language: Joan Miró i Ferrà
pseudonym: Miro, Joan, la ferra
start of work period: 1915-01-01
end of work period: 1983-00-00

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Works in European collections

1 object attributed to Joan Miró, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Ubu roi [Texto impreso]

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Article

Joan Miró i Ferrà (/mɪˈroʊ/ mirr-OH, US also /miːˈroʊ/ mee-ROH, Catalan: [ʒuˈam miˈɾo j fəˈra]; 20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Catalan painter, sculptor and ceramist from Spain. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adoptive city of Palma, Mallorca in 1981. Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism but with a personal style, sometimes also veering into Fauvism and Expressionism. He was notable for his interest in the unconscious or the subconscious mind, reflected in his re-creation of the childlike. His difficult-to-classify works also had a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and declared an "assassination of painting" in favour of upsetting the visual elements of established painting.

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